Sept. 4 (UPI) --The United Nations will vote Friday to adopt a new map of the world meant to make the countries appear more true to size than they are on the one we use today. The 2018 equal Earth ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

The United Nations General Assembly has backed an African Union-led effort to change how the world is represented on maps, adopting a resolution calling for more accurate and equitable cartographic ...

For generations, students have learned from maps that shrink Africa. The push for more accurate world map projections is prompting calls for changes in textbooks across the continent.

Continents are not changing, but how we see their size on maps could be The world map in your classroom may soon get a makeover. Africa could appear much larger, while Greenland may look far smaller.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The equal Earth map shows the size of countries more accurately than the Mercator map, which we've used for centuries. Image ...